Here’s hoping Friday at the U.S. Open is a lot drier than Thursday.
U.S. Open 2016 TV coverage and schedule for Friday’s round
The U.S. Open resumes play after a rain-shortened Thursday.
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Rainfall blasted Oakmont Country Club outside Pittsburgh, the site of this 116th national championship, all day Thursday. The first players teed off at 6:45 a.m., and play came to its first rain-induced halt shortly after 10 a.m. Then there was a short-resumption after a 90-minute break, then another weather delay. Then players hopped back on the course shortly after 2:30, and then again play stopped shortly thereafter — this time, for the day at 4:25 p.m.
A few minutes after play ended for the last time, the day’s biggest torrent of rain hit the club, squashing any chance of a return to the course on the championship’s first day. That leaves the USGA in a tricky spot, with several players in the field yet to so much as tee off and only a few having gotten through a full 18 holes.
This leaves the governing body in a tough spot, as it’ll have to either extend the tournament to Monday or scratch out a cut on schedule by packing in up to 36 holes on Friday for about half the field.
While play was actually going on, the golfers were beating expectations. While just two players carded a below-par score in the first round of the tournament’s last trip here in 2007, seven were in the red at play’s halt on Thursday.
Andrew Landry, the No. 624 player in the World Golf Ranking who’s missed six of 11 cuts in his rookie year on the PGA TOUR, is the field’s leader at 3-under. Through 17 often rain-soaked holes, Landry’s put together five birdies against two bogies.
Fortunately, FOX’s television plans don’t depend on the USGA’s scheduling of specific tee times for Friday, so we’ve already got an accurate sense of how this will go on TV. They will actually come on the air two hours earlier than originally scheduled, going live at 8 a.m. ET just 30 minutes into the resumption of the first round. That will begin an interminable day that should run on FOX until at least 9 p.m. Here’s your coverage schedule:
Friday’s coverage of the end of the first round and second round
Television (all times Eastern)
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET -- FOX Sports 1
5 to 9 p.m. -- FOX
(The 8 a.m. FOX broadcast is a departure from the 10 a.m. norm this week.)
Online streams:
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. -- Featured groups streams
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. -- Featured holes stream, Nos. 3, 13, and 17
10 a.m. to 9 p.m. -- TV simulcast stream
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. -- Simulcast of featured groups stream / Featured holes stream
Radio:
Noon to 8 p.m. -- PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208)
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